Dwight Merriman and some other folks thought I underrated the importance of schema flexibility as a reason to go NoSQL.

In Section 5 of a paper linked in the comment thread to my recent post on advanced analytics, Joe Hellerstein, Greenplum, et al. argued that one can do some parallel-statistics things in SQL that perhaps seemed only possible to do in other ways.

Ray Wang offered a survey of enterprise software innovation. He argues that consumer technology is the source of substantially all ideas for enterprise software innovation. If that sounds a bit extreme, it is — Ray oddly identified “analytics” as a consumer technology, and ignored any MPP that isn’t in the cloud. Still, his overall point is excellent, and most of his subpoints are instructive.